Wouldn’t it be great to pastor or attend the perfect church? Imagine a church where everyone loves the Lord, loves each other and loves the pastor! Everyone is a tithe-paying member. Everyone attends every worship service and everyone always volunteers for every ministry opening. Too many nursery workers, not enough work to go around on church workdays and everyone agrees on the kind of music we sing?

In 2014, photographers and curators used images to tell more than a few worthy stories. What better time to remember the visual stories from 2014 that reminded us humanity is a beautiful, complicated mess?